ISKB50 Special Documents Retrieval

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Pavla Vizváry, Ph.D. LL.M. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Pavla Vizváry, Ph.D. LL.M.
Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Sabina Kubisová
Supplier department: Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Knowledge in the range of the ISKB10 Information retrieval and ISKB13 Legal basis for information services
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
Course objectives
Legal documents, industrial property documents (trademarks, patents, etc.) and norms are special documents whose search requires not only an overview of specialized information resources but also the specific characteristics of these documents that are used to refine the search query. The aim of the practical course is to teach students to make specialized searches in the field of these documents, which can be used both in specialized and academic libraries (eg Library of the Constitutional Court, Justice Library, Law Faculty Libraries) as well as in the commercial sphere. The course focuses on the Czech and European environment.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- orientate in types of legal documents, industrial property documents and norms and describe their characteristics;
- orientate in different information resources of these documents with a focus on electronic information resources;
- search for legal documents, industrial property documents, and norms.
- process a professional search of these documents.
Syllabus
  • Course is done in a computer classroom:
  • 1. Legal documents, their typology and characteristics, searches in open information resources (eg Acts for People, NALUS, databases of judgments, EUR-Lex, Curia - Case-law of the Court of Justice);
  • 2. Searching legal documents in the legal information system (ASPI, Beck-online, CODEXIS);
  • 3. Search for industrial property documents (eg IPO database, European Patent Office, European Union Intellectual Property Office EUIPO, World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO);
  • 4. Searching for norms (Czech Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing, International Organization for Standardization).
Literature
    recommended literature
  • SPÁČILOVÁ, Danuše. Online informace o právu a nejen pro právníky. In INSOURCE 2008, konference o profesionálních informačních zdrojích. 2008. – powerpoint prezentace přednášky
  • SPÁČILOVÁ, Danuše. Porovnání informačních systémů ASPI, Beck-online a Codexis z pohledu uživatele. Revue pro právo a technologie, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, roč. 1, č. 2, s. 20-21. ISSN 1804-5383.
  • CVRČEK, František. Právní informatika. Praha: Ústav státu a práva AV ČR, 2010, 371 s. ISBN 9788073802684. info
  • ŠTĚDROŇ, Bohumír. Občanské soudní řízení sporné a využití informačních technologií a právních informačních systémů : (e-justice). Praha: Linde, 2008, 271 s. ISBN 9788072017140. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical preparation, practical tasks, active discussion.
Assessment methods
Attendance is compulsory due to the practical concept of the course. Students have to prepare the searches processed at meetings and engage in a discussion of the process. The colloquium consists of elaborating the assigned task and discussing the process.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
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